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Friday, February 3, 2012

A Look Back: Older Posts from the DuPage River

2003-2005 DuPageRiver
Reports:

I Decided I needed to wet a
line so I went to the DuPage around lunch time in the Naperville area. I caught about 11 small
mouth 8 dinks one 12in, one 14in, and one over 15in.
I had a hog up to the shore one last jump and gone! I was drifting
crawlers in eddies and casting a rebel craw in small pools. Almost half of the
fish I got on the craw. The water is low fish are stacked up, it was a lot of
fun.

Sep 10,03

I got out again today fished
a different stretch of water again in Naperville landed about 10 fish one was 14.5in
and the rest were dinks, but I’m fine with that. Also caught 2 more, I got one
channel cat and a nice rock bass. i was using a rebel craw and drifting
crawlers again. All my fish came out of one large pool behind a small shallow
rapid area with a steady current. Almost all were along current breaks. 2 or 3
came out of slack water in the back end of the pool. Good luck to anyone going
out

Sep 15,03

The water came up some with
the rain and put a little stain to the water. The fish are still biting but
with higher water they have spread more. I tried some new and old familiar
water in the Naperville
area for my usual hour and a half. I ended up with 3 caught and lost 3 smallies.
I also got one rock bass. The three I landed came on crawlers under a float
drifted into pools at the bottom of ripple areas with fast current. With higher
water and faster current the drift was a little to quick for my liking but it
still produced. I lost one fish on a pumpkinseed helgie. iIf I had more tIme to
explore and get more serious, I think I would have done better. Good luck out
there.

Sep 16,03

Went to Plainfield today and the water was up there
further than I expected. With the fast current I couldn't get a decent drift so
I moved under a bridge with deep holes along the walls. I managed to land 2 small
mouth and a crappie. I lost a couple big fish one I think was a carp the other I’m
not sure. I felt a solid head shake before she told me where I should put my
pole.

Sep 25,03

Made it out for about 1.5
hrs today, while ducking storm clouds and down pours I managed to get the best
of half a dozen bronze bullets in pools below shallow rapid areas. 2 fell prey
to helgies rigged with a split shot drifted harmlessly among the current, 2
were tricked into attacking crappie spiders reeled at a medium pace, and 2
snacked on the wrong crawler drifted slowly under a balsa float. About 4 of the
little tyrants escaped my well laid traps. It was muddy and wet but still fun
in Naperville
today.

April 18th 04 The 3 hours I
had on the water was great. I landed 16 or so smallmouth. Out of the 16 fish
caught, 2 bigger fish; one about 1.5lbs and the other a solid 2lbs. They fell
to rebel craws, blue fox spinners, case helgies, and a tiny crank bait from
some company that starts with an M. It was fun to get out again.

May 4, 05

I ventured out in the cold
this week and did pretty well. I fished in the Naperville area and scored about 10 fish and
missed about 4. I even caught a largemouth. Some of the small mouths were
pretty nice between 14&18 inches! I drifted live bait mostly minnows in
eddies and pools also along walls. It was a lot of fun to get out for a whole
day, my first real excursion this year. Good luck out there.

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With over 30 years experience of angling Dan still cannot quench his thirst for tight lined watery battles on our area’s rivers and lakes. A multi-species angler at heart PondBoy cannot hold any one species at the top of his list. Dan has fished for many species including many types of sunfish, crappies, carp, largemouth, smallmouth, channel cats, walleyes, sauger, white bass, yellow bass, perch, northern pike, musky, king salmon, steelhead, brown trout, coho salmon, rainbow trout, pickerel, and flathead catfish.

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